"Latin word corresponding to Greek ""Phosphorus"" is ""Lucifer"". It is used in its astronomical sense both in prose and poetry. Poets sometimes personify the star, placing it in a mythological context. Phosphorus (morning star) Phosphorus (Greek ""Phōsphoros"") is the Morning Star, the planet Venus in its morning appearance. Φαοσφόρος (""Phaosphoros"") and Φαεσφόρος (""Phaesphoros"") are forms of the same name in some Greek dialects. This celestial object was named when stars and planets were not always distinguished with modern precision. Another Greek name for the Morning Star is Heosphoros (Greek ""Heōsphoros""), meaning ""Dawn-Bringer"". The form Eosphorus is sometimes met in English,"
"early link to Mithra. The Persian name of the planet today is ""Nahid"", which derives from Anahita and later in history from the Pahlavi language ""Anahid"". The Ancient Greeks called the morning star , , the ""Bringer of Light"". Another Greek name for the morning star was Heosphoros (Greek ""Heōsphoros""), meaning ""Dawn-Bringer"". They called the evening star, which was long considered a separate celestial object, """" (, the ""star of the evening""). By Hellenistic times, the ancient Greeks had identified these as a single planet, though the traditional use of two names for its appearance in the morning and the"
"star"" (), based on the Five elements. The Ancient Egyptians and Greeks believed Venus to be two separate bodies, a morning star and an evening star. The Egyptians knew the morning star as Tioumoutiri and the evening star as Ouaiti. The Greeks used the names Phosphoros (meaning ""light-bringer""; alternately Heosphoros, meaning ""dawn-bringer"") for the morning star, and Hesperus (meaning ""Western one"") for the evening star. Though by the Roman era they were recognized as one celestial object, known as ""the star of Venus"", the traditional two Greek names continued to be used, though usually translated to Latin as Lucifer and"
"of Dawn"". The evening star they called """" (Latinized ""Hesperus"") (, the ""star of the evening""). By Hellenistic times, the ancient Greeks identified it as a single planet, which they named after their goddess of love, Aphrodite (""Αφροδίτη"") (Phoenician Astarte), a planetary name that is retained in modern Greek. Hesperos would be translated into Latin as Vesper and Phosphoros as Lucifer (""Light Bearer""). Venus was considered the most important celestial body observed by the Maya, who called it Chac ek, or Noh Ek<nowiki>'</nowiki>, ""the Great Star"". The Maya monitored the movements of Venus closely and observed it in daytime. The"
"the night sky, and follows a synodic cycle by which it seems to disappear for several says due to its proximity to the sun, then re-appear on the opposite side of the sun and on the other horizon. Depending on the point in its cycle, Venus may appear before sunrise in the morning, or after sunset in the evening, but it never appears to reach the apex of the sky. Therefore, many cultures have recognized it with two names, even if their astronomers realized that it was really one object. In old English, the planet was known as ""morgensteorra"" (morning"
"be discontinuous (it disappears due to its proximity to the sun, for many days at a time, and then reappears on the other horizon), some cultures did not immediately recognize Venus as single entity; instead, they assumed it to be two separate stars on each horizon: the morning star and the evening star. The Ancient Egyptians, for example, believed Venus to be two separate bodies and knew the morning star as Tioumoutiri and the evening star as Ouaiti. The Ancient Greeks called the morning star , ' (Latinized ""Phosphorus""), the ""Bringer of Light"" or , ' (Latinized ""Eosphorus""), the ""Bringer"
"all identified by Babylonian astronomers. These would remain the only known planets until the invention of the telescope in early modern times. The ancient Greeks initially did not attach as much significance to the planets as the Babylonians. The Pythagoreans, in the 6th and 5th centuries BC appear to have developed their own independent planetary theory, which consisted of the Earth, Sun, Moon, and planets revolving around a ""Central Fire"" at the center of the Universe. Pythagoras or Parmenides is said to have been the first to identify the evening star (Hesperos) and morning star (Phosphoros) as one and the"
"ben Shahar"""" may refer to the planet Venus as the morning star. The Hebrew word transliterated as ""Hêlêl"" or ""Heylel"" (pron. as ""Hay-LALE""), occurs only once in the Hebrew Bible. The Septuagint renders הֵילֵל in Greek as Ἑωσφόρος (""heōsphoros""), ""bringer of dawn"", the Ancient Greek name for the morning star. According to the King James Bible-based Strong's Concordance, the original Hebrew word means ""shining one, light-bearer"", and the translation given in the King James text is the Latin name for the planet Venus, ""Lucifer"". However, the translation of הֵילֵל with the name ""Lucifer"" has been abandoned in modern English translations"
"Hesperides In Greek mythology, the Hesperides (; Ancient Greek: Ἑσπερίδες ) are the nymphs of evening and golden light of sunsets, who were the ""Daughters of the Evening"" or ""Nymphs of the West"". They were also called the Atlantides (Ἀτλαντίδων) from their reputed father, the Titan Atlas. The name means ""originating from Hesperos"" (evening). ""Hesperos"", or ""Vesper"" in Latin, is the origin of the name Hesperus, the evening star (i.e. the planet Venus) as well as having a shared root with the English word ""west"". Ordinarily the Hesperides number three, like the other Greek triads (the Three Graces and the"
"for the morning star, ""Lucifer"" is a proper name and is capitalized in English. In Greco-Roman civilization the morning star was often personified and considered a god or the title of a deity associated with the planet. The motif of a heavenly being striving for the highest seat of heaven only to be cast down to the underworld has its origins in the motions of the planet Venus, known as the morning star. The Sumerian goddess Inanna (Babylonian Ishtar) is associated with the planet Venus. Inanna's actions in several of her myths, including ""Inanna and Shukaletuda"" and ""Inanna's Descent into"
"is called (, Hebrew for ""shining one, son of the morning""). who is addressed as הילל בן שחר (""Hêlêl ben Šāḥar""), The title """"Helel ben Shahar"""" may refer to the planet Venus as the morning star, but the text in Isaiah 14 gives no indication that Helel is the name of a star or planet. The Hebrew word transliterated as ""Hêlêl"" or ""Heylel"" (pron. as ""Hay-LALE""), occurs only once in the Hebrew Bible. The Septuagint renders הֵילֵל in Greek as Ἑωσφόρος (""heōsphoros""), ""bringer of dawn"", the Ancient Greek name for the morning star. According to the King James Bible-based Strong's"
"evening. His name is sometimes conflated with the names for his brother, the personification of the planet as the ""morning star"" Eosphorus (Greek , ""bearer of dawn"") or Phosphorus (Ancient Greek: , ""bearer of light"", often translated as ""Lucifer"" in Latin), since they are all personifications of the same planet Venus. ""Heosphoros"" in the Greek Septuagint and ""Lucifer"" in Jerome's Latin Vulgate were used to translate the Hebrew ""Helel"" (Venus as the brilliant, bright or shining one), ""son of Shahar (god) (Dawn)"" in the Hebrew version of Isaiah 14:12. There is a tendency to conclude that the ancient Greeks thought"
"two names—""Hesperus"" the evening star and ""Phosphorus"" the morning star. Pythagoras is credited with realizing they were the same planet. There is no evidence that any of these cultures knew of the transits. Venus was important to ancient American civilizations, in particular for the Maya, who called it ""Noh Ek"", ""the Great Star"" or ""Xux Ek"", ""the Wasp Star""; they embodied Venus in the form of the god Kukulkán (also known as or related to Gukumatz and Quetzalcoatl in other parts of Mexico). In the Dresden Codex, the Maya charted Venus's full cycle, but despite their precise knowledge of its"
"or good binoculars, the planets appear as discs demonstrating finite size, and it is possible to observe orbiting moons which cast shadows onto the host planet's surface. Venus is the most prominent planet, often called the ""morning star"" or ""evening star"" because it is brighter than the stars and often the only ""star"" visible near sunrise or sunset, depending on its location in its orbit. Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are also visible to the naked eye. Earth's Moon is a grey disc in the sky with cratering visible to the naked eye. It spans, depending on its exact location,"
"Attar (god) Aṯtar (; Musnad: 𐩲𐩻𐩧) is an ancient Semitic deity whose role, name, and even gender varied by culture. The name appears as Attar (Aramaic), Athtar (South Arabia), Astar (Aksum), Ashtar (Moab), Aṯtar (Ugarit) and Ištar in Mesopotamia. In both genders, Aṯtar is identified with the planet Venus, the morning and evening star, in some manifestations of Semitic mythology. In Ugaritic mythology Aṯtar succeeds to the throne of the dead god Baal Hadad but proves inadequate. In semi-arid regions of western Asia he was sometimes worshipped as a rain god. In more southerly regions he is probably known as"
"to the Sun, for many days at a time, and then reappears on the other horizon), some cultures did not recognize Venus as single entity; instead, they assumed it to be two separate stars on each horizon: the morning and evening star. Nonetheless, a cylinder seal from the Jemdet Nasr period indicates that the ancient Sumerians already knew that the morning and evening stars were the same celestial object. The Sumerians associated the planet with the goddess Inanna, who was known as Ishtar by the later Akkadians and Babylonians. She had a dual role as a goddess of both love"
"and ""Yepun"" (Evening Star) respectively. Originally there was some confusion as to whether ""Yepun"" actually stands for the evening star Venus, because a Spanish-Mapuche dictionary from the 1940s wrongly translated ""Yepun"" as ""Sirius"". Although the four 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes can be combined in the VLTI, their observation time is spent mostly on individual observations, and are used for interferometric observations for a limited number of nights every year. However, the four smaller 1.8-metre ATs are available and dedicated to interferometry to allow the VLTI to operate every night. The top part of each AT is a round enclosure, made from"
"with Apollo and the latter with Diana. But if Luna (the Moon) is a goddess, then Lucifer (the Morning-Star) also and the rest of the Wandering Stars (Stellae Errantes) will have to be counted gods; and if so, then the Fixed Stars (Stellae Inerrantes) as well."" In Islamic traditions the morning star is called ""Zohra"" or ""Zohrah"" and commonly related to a ""beautiful woman"". According to myth, of which an echo is found in a play by the 17th-century English poet William Percy, two angels, Harut and Marut, descended to earth and were seduced by Zohra's beauty to commit ""shirk"":"
"Tala (goddess) Tala is the name of the goddess of the morning and evening star in Tagalog mythology. Her origins are varied depending on region. The most popular myth of Tala is that she is one of the three daughters of Bathala to a mortal woman. Her sisters include Mayari, the goddess of the moon and Hanan, the goddess of morning. She is known to have supported the creation of the Tagalog traditional constellations. Tala used light spheres or orbs to ferry men to safety at night, however, when the Spaniards came, they demonized the light orbs and called it"
"The morning star may have been conceived as a male deity who presided over the arts of war and the evening star may have been conceived as a female deity who presided over the arts of love. Among the Akkadians, Assyrians, and Babylonians, the name of the male god eventually supplanted the name of his female counterpart, but, due to extensive syncretism with Inanna, the deity remained as female, despite the fact that her name was in the masculine form. Inanna has posed a problem for many scholars of ancient Sumer due to the fact that her sphere of power"
"evening continued even into the Roman period. The Greek myth of Phaethon, whose name means ""Shining One"", has also been seen as similar to those of other gods who cyclically descend from the heavens, like Inanna and Attar. In classical mythology, Lucifer (""light-bringer"" in Latin) was the name of the planet Venus as the morning star (s the evening star it was called Vesper), and it was often personified as a male figure bearing a torch. Lucifer was said to be ""the fabled son of Aurora and Cephalus, and father of Ceyx"". He was often presented in poetry as heralding"
"and the sixth-brightest star in the night sky at magnitude 0.08. Its traditional name is a reference to its mythological position as Amalthea; it is sometimes called the ""Goat Star"". Capella's names all point to this mythology. In Arabic, Capella was called ""al-'Ayyuq"", meaning ""the goat"", and in Sumerian, it was called mul.ÁŠ.KAR, ""the goat star"". On Ontong Java, Capella was called ""ngahalapolu"". Capella is a spectroscopic binary with a period of 104 days; the components are both yellow giants, more specifically, the primary is a G-type star and the secondary is between a G-type and F-type star in its"
"star story, ""Lucifer"" was then applied to him as a proper name. The name Lucifer, the Latin name (literally ""Light-Bearer"" or ""Light-Bringer"") for the morning star (the planet Venus in its morning appearances), is often given to the Devil in these stories. The brilliancy of the morning star—which eclipses all other stars, but is not seen during the night—may be what gave rise to myths such as the Babylonian story of Ethana and Zu, who was led by his pride to strive for the highest seat among the star-gods on the northern mountain of the gods (an image present also"
"Aspects of Venus In astrology, an aspect is an angle a planet makes to another planet or point of astrological interest. As the second-brightest object in the night sky after the Moon, often prominent during the morning or evening, Venus has aspects that are readily apparent to the casual eye. They were of historical importance in the development of geocentric and ultimately heliocentric models of the Solar System. The table contains special positions of Venus until 2021. In general, Venus (or Mercury) is an ""evening star"" when it has an eastern elongation from the Sun, and is a ""morning star"""
"that Eosphorus (Venus in the morning) and Hesperos (Venus in the evening), because of the distinction in the names, were two different celestial objects. And that the Greeks only later accepted the Babylonian view that the two were the same; and consequently that it was by a not original Babylonian influence that the identification of the planets with the great gods came to be. Thereby the Greeks dedicated the ""wandering star"" (planet) to Aphrodite (Roman Venus), as the equivalent of Ishtar. This order of influence is not backed by scholars, nor any historical documents. Rather the two mythological explanations seem"
"Solobung Yubin Solobung Yubin (in Mongolian), otherwise called (in language) Uhaa Solbon, is the ""spirit of the evening and morning stars -- Venus (Solbon)."" Or else, Solbon is Venus simply as ""evening star"". This name, defined as the ""shepherd of heaven"", is transcribed Ζὀλβων in Byzantine records. In Korean, it is variously written /čolbon/ (卒本) or /solbon/ (率本). Uhaa Solbon is also ""known by the name Uuden Tenger (""tenger"" of the gate)"". If this ""gate"" be equivalent to the ""door"" for which Viṣṇu is ""door-keeper"", then it may be pertinent that an incarnation of Vishnu ""is related to the planet"
"When subsequent planets were discovered in the 18th and 19th centuries, the naming practice was retained with ""Neptūnus"" (Poseidon). Uranus is unique in that it is named for a Greek deity rather than his Roman counterpart. Some Romans, following a belief possibly originating in Mesopotamia but developed in Hellenistic Egypt, believed that the seven gods after whom the planets were named took hourly shifts in looking after affairs on Earth. The order of shifts went Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon (from the farthest to the closest planet). Therefore, the first day was started by Saturn (1st hour), second"
"the sun that descend and rise above the horizon"". According to folklore, each morning Aušrinė and her servant Tarnaitis (possibly Mercury) prepare the way for Saulė (the Sun). In the evening, Vakarinė prepares the bed for Saulė. The relationship between Saulė and Aušrinė is complex. Sometimes Saulė is described as mother of Aušrinė, Vakarinė and other planets – Indraja (Jupiter), Sėlija (Saturn), Žiezdrė (Mars), Vaivora (Mercury), and even Žemyna (Earth). A popular myth describes how Mėnulis (Moon) fell in love with beautiful Aušrinė, cheated on his wife Saulė, and received punishment from Perkūnas (thunder god). Different myths also depict rivalry"
"the other horizon), some cultures did not recognize Venus as single entity; instead, they assumed it to be two separate stars on each horizon: the morning and evening star. Nonetheless, a cylinder seal from the Jemdet Nasr period indicates that the ancient Sumerians already knew that the morning and evening stars were the same celestial object. The Sumerians associated the planet with the goddess Inanna (known as Ishtar by the later Akkadians and Babylonians), and their myths of Inanna are often allegories for the apparent motions and cycles of the planet. In the Old Babylonian period, the planet Venus was"
"Venus"". Solobung Yubin Solobung Yubin (in Mongolian), otherwise called (in language) Uhaa Solbon, is the ""spirit of the evening and morning stars -- Venus (Solbon)."" Or else, Solbon is Venus simply as ""evening star"". This name, defined as the ""shepherd of heaven"", is transcribed Ζὀλβων in Byzantine records. In Korean, it is variously written /čolbon/ (卒本) or /solbon/ (率本). Uhaa Solbon is also ""known by the name Uuden Tenger (""tenger"" of the gate)"". If this ""gate"" be equivalent to the ""door"" for which Viṣṇu is ""door-keeper"", then it may be pertinent that an incarnation of Vishnu ""is related to the"
"Achernar Achernar is the name of the primary (or 'A') component of the binary system designated Alpha Eridani (α Eridani, abbreviated Alpha Eri, α Eri), which is the brightest 'star' or point of light in, and lying at the southern tip of, the constellation of Eridanus, and the tenth-brightest in the night sky. The two components are designated Alpha Eridani A (the primary) and B (the secondary, also known informally as Achernar B). As determined by the Hipparcos astrometry satellite, it is approximately from the Sun. Of the ten apparent brightest stars in the night-time sky, Alpha Eridani is the"
"of the stars. However, some have both Zorya as virgin goddesses, while describing Myesyats as an unrelated female moon goddess. The Evening Star is ""Zorya Vechernyaya"" (from Russian ""vecher"", meaning ""evening""; also known as ""Večernya Zvyezda"", ""Večernya Zvezda"", ""Zvezda Vechernaya"", ""Zorya Vechernyaya"", ""Zwezda Wieczoniaia"", ""Zwezda Wieczernica"", ""Zvezda Vechernitsa"", ""Gwiazda Wieczorna"", ""Vechirnia Zorya"", ""Večernyača"", ""Večernica"", ""Večernice""), who closes the palace gates at dusk, after sunset and Dažbog's return. She was associated with the planet Venus or Mercury. Some myths described both her and her sister Zorya Utrennyaya as the wives of the moon god Myesyats and the mothers of the stars,"
"Planetary hours The planetary hours are an ancient system in which one of the seven classical planets is given rulership over each day and various parts of the day. Developed in Hellenistic astrology, it has possible roots in older Babylonian astrology, and it is the origin of the names of the days of the week as used in English and numerous other languages. The classical planets are Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon. The planets take rulership over the hours in this sequence, known as the ""Chaldean order"" (listed from furthest to nearest in the planetary"